Comments on: The 50-Yr-Old Basketball Hacker-Genius

By: Ryan Hockman

Ryan Hockman — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:37:28 +0000

Great story and very inspiring. A friend of mine recently sent me this article in hopes of helping a kid earn a college football scholarship, but when I read it, I immediately noticed a relevance to the Hacker-Genius. Here’s a link to the article…

http://newsandtribune.com/sports/x1346838240/SELF-MADE-MAN-Henryvilles-Griffin-Uhl-has-a-shot-at-playing-Division-I-football

… but the relevant part is this excerpt…

“Uhl may be the strongest person in Clark County, regardless of age. He has bench pressed 375 pounds, squatted 625 and just before his 18th birthday in January, he deadlifted 700 pounds.

So how did he transform himself from an unimposing freshman to the beast that Niece describes him as today? Uhl credits that to his lack of resources and coaches. The community league he played for didn’t have a training and conditioning program.

“And the school weightroom is basically a closet,” Uhl said. “Not having the program to do the thinking for me, I had to go and research and read stuff and learn all that myself, so I think that’s why I’ve gotten so much stronger than everybody else, because I had to learn how to do it myself. I understand it.”

By: Rod Roth

Rod Roth — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:36:34 +0000

Super story. My takeaway is Bob’s curiosity and determination to use everything that’s out here, as long as he can satisfy himself that he information is valid for him. Thanks!

By: Lisa Wiele

Lisa Wiele — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:17:20 +0000

You took the words out of my mouth Cody! What a great story! Thanks for sharing Dan.

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:12:40 +0000

Wow must be an amazing feeling that something you wrote affected a complete strangers life so much! Loved the story :~)

By: Bob Fisher

Bob Fisher — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:49:17 +0000

After reading this in the book, I experimented with different distances while practicing and still do. Nothing drastic, I normally stay within a foot or two from the foul line. I also incorporated perceptual awareness (vision constraints) because several studies have proven this helps. Keep in mind, experimentation is a good thing…

By: djcoyle

djcoyle — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:34:52 +0000

Great question, Janet — that’s certainly what learning experts like Dr. Robert Bjork have shown in their experiments. But let me ask the expert (Bob Fisher) if he’d like to weigh in on this here — thanks, Dan

By: Janet Ragan

Janet Ragan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:38:16 +0000

You mentioned in your book and in a blog post about practicing free throws from different distances to improve free throw shooting percentage. Are there specific distances that players should shoot from?

By: Kasem Kharsa

Kasem Kharsa — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:44:57 +0000

A true modern-day genius. And as much as I enjoyed ‘The Talent Code’, I never took the time to actually apply the book’s advice, to build my own ‘myelin accelerator’ related to my desired talents. This video inspires me to finally do that.

Thanks for posting -

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:14:54 +0000

Inspirational. Nothing less.

By: Robin Clarkson

Robin Clarkson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:52:35 +0000

I love Bobs attitude and thinking, it’s great and I love his wifes comment at the beginning about letting people know, it mirrors my own thinking.

People are slowly starting to realize it’s upstairs that matters most and that you need to look at someones mindset first and then the skill when picking teams